2018 Lawsuit Filed On Ocean Gate Construction
In a response to OceanGate's lawsuit, Lochridge alleged in a 2018 court filing that he had been wrongfully terminated and that his actions were aimed at ensuring the safety of passengers on the. In 2018, an employee of OceanGate and pilot of the company's submersibles David Lochridge, filed a lawsuit alleging that the Titan needed additional testing to travel to such deep depths. Docket for OceanGate Inc v.
Lochridge, 2:18-cv-01083 - Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non. Key Background Lochridge filed the lawsuit as a counterclaim in response to a suit filed against him by OceanGate, alleging he had disclosed confidential information about the Titan. The company behind an underwater Titanic exploration vessel that has been missing for three days was previously accused of ignoring safety concerns and risking "potential extreme danger," according to a years-old whistleblower lawsuit.
In a January 2018 quality inspection report, Lochridge flagged. A former employee sued OceanGate claiming he was wrongfully terminated after he pointed to the "potential danger" when the submersible reaches extreme depths. David Lochridge, OceanGate's director of marine operations, wrote an engineering report in 2018 that said the craft under development needed more testing and that passengers might be endangered when it reached "extreme depths," according to a lawsuit filed that year in U.S.
District Court in Seattle. Contract: Other case filed on July 24, 2018 in the Washington Western District Court. Moreover, the former director of marine operations at OceanGate, David Lochridge, said in a 2018 lawsuit that he warned the company about "safety and quality control issues," but was ignored and then fired.
A former employee of OceanGate alleged in a 2018 counterclaim lawsuit that he was fired for raising concerns about quality control and testing of potential flaws in the same experimental.
